"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to..." - Quote by George Sand

“nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.”

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”

“Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.”

“For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.”

“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter”

“The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.”

“The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.”

“One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.”

“Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.”